Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.
Cross References
Job 34:20They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.
Job 34:25Therefore, He recognizes their deeds; He overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.
Job 36:19Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress?
Treasury of Scripture
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
Desire
Job 3:20,21
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; …
Job 6:9
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 7:15
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
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Exodus 12:29
And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
2 Kings 19:35
And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
